Windows 10: cloning with Macrium

I am trying to clone a small drive in an old laptop to a larger drive for the extra storage I have used just a straight clone onto an unallocated disk , formatting the disk with exfat deleting the volumes so that the disk becomes empty and even tried it with the disk marked as RAW.
However much I try I keep coming back to failing with error 8 any thoughts on the matter would be greatly appreciated as I have tried reinstalling Windows onto the larger drive but for some reason the net connection just keeps dropping out so I feel a clone is the only way I can fix what I want to do.

Am at the moment cloning one of my other machines and am going to try cloning staright to thathoping the smaller disk will clone by overwriting the clone I am making.

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Access to cloned HD

Hi Dave,

I used Macrium Reflect (MR) to clone the SSD. It is quite possible the cloning operation did not succeed in creating a bootable drive. I have used it successfully in the past for several clones. How can I determine

• if the boot instructions came over with the clone?
• or should I try cloning the drive again?

This computer is a Dell refurbed workstation and I am uncertain if it was set up in a RAID configuration although it came with only 1 rotating hard drive.

 

Cloning an external HDD

Doing a clean Install while switching hard drive is always recommend due to the fact that the hardware configuration of each PC is different.

What I suggest is to Clone the other data partitions except C:

Use Macrium reflect a freeware for this.

Cloning a disk - KnowledgeBase - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase

 

start menu doesn't work on OS cloned with Aomei

Thanks. I did this and it worked exactly as suggested. Problem solved.